Love Island's Megan Barton Hanson used to work as an escort and would be showered with gifts and cash by a string of Sugar Daddies, new reports have claimed.

The reality babe, who has been open and honest about her stripper and glamour modelling past, used to live in a posh riverside apartment in London and drove a luxury £30,000 SUV, with her glam lifestyle supported by rich men, the Sun claims.

"Megan lived the high life before Love Island and had a really nice apartment in St Katherine’s Dock in London. She had a Range Rover Evoque and all the designer handbags and clothes she wanted," a source told the newspaper.

Megan allegedly worked as an escort before entering the villa (Image: REX/Shutterstock)

"This was down to one older guy in particular, in his 50s, that she was with for a while. She also had dates and flings with other older guys who you could describe as Sugar Daddies. They loved having Megan on their arm and would do anything for her."

Megan, 24, is now happily coupled up with her Love Island bae Wes Nelson - and even moved him into her Southend home this week.

But the paper claims she used to meet one man in particular for dates at the Westbury Mayfair hotel in upmarket west London.

Megan was this week forced to deny doing porn in her younger years when she was asked outright at a post-Love Island press day.

She's reported to have been showed with gifts and cash from older men (Image: REX/Shutterstock)

Videos and pictures of her naked body emerged on graphic websites while she was in the villa, while she was hit with claims that she'd worked for a pay-per-view site that cost subscribers £2 a minute to watch.

"Porn? I've never done porn! I've done stripping that I admitted [on the show]," she told the interviewer when the claims were put to her.

She also revealed that she wanted to leave the seedier modelling in the past, telling the Sun: "I was in that industry for a long time – since I was 20 years old – and I want to move on now. I never want to go back to previous jobs I had like glamour modelling."

Megan and Wes have already moved in together (Image: Instagram)

But since flying home from Majorca, Megan has ditched her own management company to sign up with Studio 66 Management - a firm that runs steamy 'UK Babe Channels' that attract late-night viewership by broadcasting bikini-clad women flirting with callers over the phone.

She was due to spend Saturday night doing meet and greets with fans at Lourenzos Dunfermline in Fife, but hours before she was meant to arrive, the club's management revealed she'd scrapped all her upcoming PAs.

Megan has spent a fortune on plastic surgery - here's how she used to look

The Essex girl has denied ever being in porn (Image: ITV)

"Unfortunately Love Island star Megan Barton has decided to CANCEL ALL personal appearances due to personal reasons," they wrote on the club's Facebook.

"Lourenzos sincerely apologise to everyone who was excited about meeting Megan on Saturday 4th August but unfortunately the situation is out with our control.

"The good news is that JACK FOWLER will 100% be here next Saturday. Lourenzos HQ."